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Lobar vs Lobule - What's the difference?

lobar | lobule |

As an adjective lobar

is of or pertaining to a ; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.

As a noun lobule is

a small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.

lobar

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Of or pertaining to a ; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.

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    lobule

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.
  • (botany) In liverworts with bilobed leaves, the smaller of the two lobes, sometimes modified to form a sac.
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    • The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule', usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some ''Frullania'' taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the '''lobules''', and ''Neohattoria'' has caducous ' lobules but persistent lobes.

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